E-commerce websites have a reputation for not featuring attractive or creative design. While usability is extremely important in order to maintain a profitable e-commerce site, the design can still be appealing, as the sites featured in this post will demonstrate.
Here we will showcase 30 well-designed e-commerce sites from a variety of different industries. You’ll see a variety of design styles being used, but each one is effective at presenting an online shop that looks good for visitors and customers.
Today we’ve got a special treat for the SpyreStudios visitors; 10 free copies of the new iSocialize theme from Giant Themes! The best part is this – the Giant Themes site doesn’t even launch until January 1st, so you’ll be getting the theme before anyone else!
Before we get into what you need to do in order to enter, lets take a look at the theme and see some of the features that it comes built in with.
When I started playing music about 15 years ago, I had a band with some friends and we recorded some of our songs (demos) and I remember someone told me to put everything we had on a tape or CD and mail it to ourselves. This way we’d have the date stamp on the package and should anyone rip one of our songs we’d have the proof that we came up with the ideas first.
It sounded like a simple and easy way to protect our material. Of course this was never meant to replace copyrights, but we were 13-14 and that seemed like a good enough solution, especially since we had absolutely no budget :)
Needless to say that something like this would not work today, and would certainly never work for web designs and online content! Especially because of the amount of content available online, the tons of different ways you can license your work, the fact that your rights will vary from country to country, and other issues like bandwidth theft, splogs and scrappers.
How many fonts do you have downloaded? As a designer myself, I am going to go out on a limb and assume most designers have 500+ fonts on their computer and are always on the lookout for more (but always end up using your 8-10 favorite ones, right?) :)
We’ll, today you’re in luck because we’ve got 40 killer grunge fonts that are free to download from DaFont.com
There are many, many more great grunge fonts over at DaFont but these are the ones that I felt were the best and offered the most diversity from the bunch. I hope you enjoy the font list and if you design something with them, we’d love to see in the comments.
If you’ve been following me on Twitter you may already know that I’m working on a new design site with Mason Hipp (owner of FreelanceFolder) called Media Loot – and we’re looking for designers!
If you’re an expert with Photoshop, Illustrator, have an eye for good design and you’re looking for design work, we want to hear from you. Here’s what we’re looking and what’s in it for you:
- We are looking for the following resources: icons, vectors, brushes, textures, buttons, and more…!
- You’ll get credit (name and link) for your work for everything you design
- You will get paid on a per-project basis
- We’re really looking to build long term relationships with designers
For those of you interested in applying, read the full post to get all the details :)
Web designers can (and should) draw inspiration from places other than web design, so today’s article is going to showcase 25 creative packaging designs that I found on Deviantart.com.
For anyone who hasn’t browsed through deviant art yet, you are missing out on a lot of creative inspiration. yes, the css galleries out there are good for inspiration, but I find myself searching sites like behance and deviant art much more lately, because of the diversity of designs and the fact that they don’t have to be “approved” before you see them. Do you know how many killer designs get submitted to css galleries every day, but never make it? With Deviant Art, you don’t run into that problem.
